AUTOCONF BOF: review & status

AUTOCONF BOF:review & status

Thomas Clausen, Shubhranshu Singh

MANET WG, IETF-62

Background Background (1/2)(1/2)

•Ad hoc node may need to autoconfigure either orboth:• Global scope address, if a gateway is available• MANET-local scope address, for standalone networks•Current status:• No standard mechanism and definition related to autoconfiguration of

ad hoc node

Background Background (2/2)(2/2)

•MANET list has carried discussions of autoconfiguration ideas and requirements almost since[manet] was chartered.•There have been several autoconfiguration drafts• None of them have been accepted as working group drafts•Has never been a charter item•Many outside projects (e.g., military) have shown theneed

Purpose of the BOF

•Goal:• confirm that we can agree to develop a std.track solution toaddress autoconfiguration in MANETs.•How:• review “historic” proposed solutions• review usage scenarios & requirements• discuss problem statement & charter

Proposed charter

•To develop an address autoconfigurationsolution, supporting:• stand-alone, hybrid and/or intermittently connected

mobile ad-hoc networks• IPv6 and/or IPv4• unique address assignment in face of:• network partition• network merger• random node mobility within network• random node joining/leaving network

Autoconf Status

•Mailing-list:• ~200 subscribers• lively discussions•Drafts :• proposed solutions• envisioned/theoretical proposals• implementation documentation• problem-statements, requirements, scenarios

WWW-page

• http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/Labo/Thomas.Clausen/IETF/MANETAUTOCONF• I-D’s (also some historic)•mailing-list archives & subscription information•Autoconf Abstract

•Next step• Autoconf WG …. ?• Another BOF …. ?• Give-up …. ?

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